25 Years of Adobe - Adobe Ventures into Linux and Open Source

By 2007, Adobe had released Acrobat and Flash Player for Linux. In 2007, Adobe announced that it would be open-sourcing Flex, its Web development framework, in answer to Microsofts Silverlight.

Twenty-five years ago, Adobe's founders thought they had a better idea concerning how to handle on-screen fonts: PostScript. Today, Adobe is one of the top-dogs in digital photography, with Photoshop; print publishing, with InDesign and Web publishing, wi